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Aaron_DeVries

@Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social

He/him, DIY Aerospace engineer, game dev, 3D modeling, 3Dprinting, writer, Terran 🌎
I make things.

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Aaron_DeVries, to random
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"Randomized controlled trial"

Aaron_DeVries, to space
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Do you like obscure space age model kits? Consider checking out my Etsy shop!

https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ADMiniatures?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=1101478898

Right now all sales help fund a renewable energy project I've been working on. You get a model, I get to make turbines. It's a win win!

#space #history #etsy #science #3dprinting

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I officially found my favorite version of the trolly problem.

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This is inconsequential, but I really like the visuals of the antimatter engines shutdown and startup in Cosmic Ocean. It's a product of how I setup the engine plume, and it looks great.

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the RTA-3 rocket is almost ready for printing. It will be the final RTA rocket, and test the rotor recovery system fully in flight.

It won't be the last Raven rocket, but the next rocket will be a new class, with new propulsion, and a new engineering goal. More on that later but i'm excited to reveal the new rocket class when the time is ready.

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The sphere is to spaceships what crabs are to evolution.

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Whenever I see "there is a planet in the habitable zone, but it's a gas giant" I always think gas giants can have rocky moons so it's still a viable candidate for habitability.

Finding a gas giant isn't a downer. I would even go so far as to say a large gas giant in the habitable zone potentially increases the possibilities of a habitable world. Even accounting for radiation belts. The number of moons they can have ups the dice rolls.

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I'm still working on some updates for it, and as such it's still isn't perfect. But if you are interested in a simple Newtonian arcade space shooter, my game Flank Speed is available on Steam. Kind of a modern take on the classic game "Space War". With multiplayer in the works.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2867450/Flank_Speed/

#space #gamedev #unity3d #arcade #scifi #indiedev

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Imagine being an alien en rout to invade Earth, then when your ship settles into orbit you detect dozens of nuclear detonation on the surface, followed shortly by your ship getting shredded by a swarm of tungsten cannonballs.

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I'm thinking about the feasibility of building a small scale unscrewed stuhlinger umbrella ship. But replacing the reactor with a solar concentrator to heat silicon oil to run a generator. And replace the cesium grid ion drive with something more modern. Then send it to Venus from Earth orbit.

It wouldn't be the best or most efficient Venus spacecraft, but it would win major aesthetic points for being really cool.

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I like the idea of iodine ion thrusters. The trouble with iodine reacting with everything is a bit of a headache. But when built according iodine ion thrusters are neat.

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I found myself needing to design shoes for an anthropomorphic character with digitigrade legs. Honestly a lot of fun and the design is coming along.

This is for another project based on cartoon style games from my childhood. With Flank Speed finishing up I need a replacment small project I can work on some days to prevent burnout from just working on Cosmic Ocean non-stop every day. Alternating between 2 projects really improves productivity for me and keeps things fresh in my brain.

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Any time a SETI candidate signal turns out to be terrestrial contamination.

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The printable parts of the rockets rotor recovery system are done. Will need to get the springs, screws, and probably a real bearing. It only needs to survive a flight, maybe 2.

I'm looking forward to making the full size rocket. The rotor recovery system will be much easier to make and likely based off a large RC helicopters rotor mount (which will also allow the rockets descent to be actively controlled).

Aaron_DeVries, to gamedev
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Cosmic Ocean

From first concept sketch to current state.

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Aaron_DeVries, to gamedev
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Flank Speed is now live on steam!

Multiplayer will be coming in a later update, as well as bug fixes that will undoubtedly be found, and reasonable game play suggestions I receive from players. It's just a simple arcade game but I worry about problems i've missed. Only time will tell now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2867450/Flank_Speed/

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Shoutout to the ark starship from Evacuate Earth.

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Ice worlds like Europa and Enceladus are intriguing targets for the search for life because they have oceans of water. But that water is locked under a thick shell of ice that could be kilometers deep. Researchers are testing new technologies to drill through the ice, such as the Search for Life Using Submersible Head (SLUSH) probe. This probe is heated to melt through the ice but has a rotating drill to speed up the descent. It was recently tested on Devon Island.

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2024/pdf/2299.pdf

Aaron_DeVries,
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@fraser it occurs to me if we could improve neutrino based communication and have the sources and detectors small enough. That could offer a way to communicate with a probe through the ice. Bitrates would be terrible but it's that or a 10km cable.

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Rocketship X-M was released 74 years ago today.

"An astronaut crew on their way to the Moon are unexpectedly propelled by gravitational forces and end up on Mars instead."

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@nyrath @TheSpaceshipper
It's kind of like going to your kitchen to grab a drink from your fridge and accidentally ending up at McMurdo Station.

nyrath, to random
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Online calculator for plotting scifi interstellar trips. An aid for Mongoose #TTRPG 2300 AD

https://starscanner.six51.com/

Aaron_DeVries,
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@nyrath this is super useful. I've been using space engine and math to plot stuff like this for stories, games, and just for fun. Because interstellar navigation and rout plotting at relativistic speeds is fun for the whole family.

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Don't mind me. I'm trying to support the artist on the left.

Aaron_DeVries,
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@nyrath I alternate between the two. I'll be hyper focused on the growth pattern of moss in a high oxygen low pressure environment for a story. Then make a spaceship that operates on a non specified field drive with zero explanation for a game.

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Boy, my 12 year old great-nephew just made me feel totally inadequate.

Apparently he listens to podcasts while simultaneously reading technical books on totally different topics. His father (my nephew) has given him tests and his comprehension of both cast and text are excellent.

As a drawback, he does suffer from severe ADHD. His mental world is like he is surrounded by falling scraps of book pages, and he has to read each one before they hit the ground.

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@nyrath this is how I discovered your website in the first place. I was digging through material on torch drives and one of the many tabs was Atomic Rockets.

Aaron_DeVries,
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@nyrath As someone who also has ADHD and is possibly (most certainly) on the spectrum, this is relatable. That requirement to have to absorb as much information on a given topic before you can move on is troublesome. A single search out of curiosity will end with 15 new tabs and 2 hours suddenly gone.

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https://hackaday.com/2024/04/25/the-myth-of-propellantless-space-propulsion-refuses-to-die/

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@nyrath the closest I feel we could get is a photon drive. But a Black body photon drive has terrible thrust, and an antimatter photon drive uses propellant. Only options I can see for a true propellantless drive is swimming in spacetime or creating gravitational gradients. But creating gravitational gradients that would result in falling forward is firmly in the "and then a miracle happens" portion of the equation.

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https://www.space.com/us-win-moon-race-china-congress-artemis-hearing

Aaron_DeVries,
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@nyrath outside of prestige, I don't really see how China landing on the moon impacts Artemis in any tangible way. If we have a Chinese mission on the moon and a NASA mission on the moon. That just means we have more humans on the moon, which is good thing.

But if this cold war mindset boosts Artemis funding then that's also a good thing. Make spaceflights, not conflicts.

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